Labour & Employment
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From  NEW! A friend to labour?The Trudeau record on labour rights and labour relations From: The Trudeau Record |
This chapter examines the Trudeau government’s record on labour rights and labour relations. | Stephanie Ross | 15 | 2024 | $1.50 Add |
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From  Burning Down the (Boat) HouseHow the Common Law Helps Make Sense of Weber From: One Law for All? |
Analysis of the case of New Brunswick v O’Leary to argue that Weber stands for a sound legal proposition that the work contract, whether individual or collective, speaks to and alters the … | Brian Langille | 16 | 2017 | $1.60 Add |
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From  NEW! From status to contract: Toward new legal forms of worker subjugationFrom: Law at Work |
This chapter explores the evolution of labour legislation, highlighting the role these laws played in limiting workers’ rights and reinforcing class hierarchies. It also analyzes collective … | Harry Glasbeek | 18 | 2024 | $1.80 Add |
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From NEW! Executives: In a class of their own?From: Law at Work |
This chapter explores the central role of executives and managers in corporate operations, arguing that their wealth and power have grown as they exercise influence beyond their individual … | Harry Glasbeek | 26 | 2024 | $2.60 Add |
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From NEW! A legal right to maim and kill workersFrom: Law at Work |
This chapter examines how the structures and ideology supported by law to maintain and perpetuate capitalism ensure the dominance of one class over another. It also discusses how, when it comes … | Harry Glasbeek | 33 | 2024 | $3.30 Add |
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From NEW! The dignity of work versus the degradation of work under capitalismFrom: Law at Work |
This chapter examines how the basic structure of capitalism makes work unrewarding, and how legal systems legitimize and reinforce these conditions. It argues that the law not only sustains … | Harry Glasbeek | 29 | 2024 | $2.90 Add |
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From NEW! Selected NotesFrom: Law at Work |
This page lists selected notes used throghout the book. | Harry Glasbeek | 1 | 2024 | $0.10 Add |
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From NEW! Capital-labour struggles better described as warsFrom: Law at Work |
This chapter examines how labour unions and legal reforms from the mid-nineteenth to early twentieth centuries challenged employer dominance, and how the Great Depression prompted worker-focused … | Harry Glasbeek | 16 | 2024 | $1.60 Add |
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From NEW! World War II: Promises made, fulfilled, and then dilutedFrom: Law at Work |
This chapter looks at how labour policies changed during and after World War II, where many of the advances made by the working class were challenged in the 1930s. It also covers the many worker … | Harry Glasbeek | 28 | 2024 | $2.80 Add |
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From NEW! The common law’s anti-collectivism and the impoverished right to strikeFrom: Law at Work |
This chapter examines how competitive capitalism undermined worker solidarity by pressuring individuals to compete for jobs and accept employer conditions, which widened the divide between … | Harry Glasbeek | 39 | 2024 | $3.90 Add |
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From NEW! How judges are programmed to define and interpret contracts of employmentFrom: Law at Work |
This chapter explains how the legal system and the rules and decisions which show the law is comfortable with differential treatment, prioritizes property rights and employer interests often at … | Harry Glasbeek | 14 | 2024 | $1.40 Add |
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From NEW! How employers avoid the employment contract’s strictures and profit from its principles and ideologyFrom: Law at Work |
The story shared in this chapter highlights the measures capitalists will take to escape legal regulations that try to restrict their profit-maximization drive. It also describes how capitalists … | Harry Glasbeek | 25 | 2024 | $2.50 Add |
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From NEW! Workers’ need to expand the scope of contracts of employmentFrom: Law at Work |
This chapter discusses the ways in which capitalists seek for ways to maximize profits, including finding ways to pass the costs of making profits on to others and pressuring governments to … | Harry Glasbeek | 27 | 2024 | $2.70 Add |
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From NEW! Helping employers out: A private sphere of criminal justiceFrom: Law at Work |
This chapter discusses how the contract of employment is a contract of submission. It highlights the ways the law also ensures that it is a contract of subordination, giving ownership of the … | Harry Glasbeek | 32 | 2024 | $3.20 Add |
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From NEW! Helping employers out: A private sphere of criminal justiceFrom: Law at Work |
This chapter examines how governments determined which businesses were essential to the public welfare during the COVID-19 pandemic. It argues that labeling employees essential workers functions … | Harry Glasbeek | 21 | 2024 | $2.10 Add |
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From  Collective Bargaining and Freedom of AssociationPondering B.C. Health Services |
In the British Columbia Health Services case, the Supreme Court of Canada surprised the labour law community by dramatically reversing twenty years of entrenched jurisprudence. Ever since the … | Thomas Kuttner | 24 | 2011 | $2.40 Add |
